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Natani Notah
Natani Noah is an artist, poet, and graphic designer. Her work explores Native American identity in relation to Navajo womanhood. She is interested in Indigenous feminism, environmental justice, and historical trauma.

Early life and education
Natani Noah was born and raised in San Bernardino, CA. She is Lakota and Cherokee descent. In 2014 Notah earned her B.F.A. from Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the College of Arts and Sciences. Following undergrad she worked as a designer and communications assistant for Cornell's American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP). She then went on to pursue her MFA at Stanford.

Art
Natani Notah is inspired by acts of decolonization, environmental justice, Indigenous feminism, and Indigenous futurism in her work. Her work - including sculptures, installations, and performances - examine contemporary Native American identity through the lens of Diné (Navajo) womanhood. Her piece Dust Masks (2017) consists of four beaded dust masks, which she created in response to the events at Standing Rock. The piece was meant to channel ideas regarding climate change through a futurist native perspective.

While much of Notah's work is sculpture based, she has also created various performance and video works. One of her more notable videos is #TSIIYÉEŁPOWERED (2017), which explores the cultural significance of hair to Navajo culture, in context of the Indian Residential Boarding School Era. The work focuses on reclaiming native heritage after forced assimilation, and the political implications of wearing culturally significant clothing in public.

She had been published in As/Us: A Space for Women of the World, Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought, Sculpture Magazine, and ''Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism''. Her work is intended to question what it means to be a colonized individual in the U.S. today. It is meant to challenge dominant perspectives by inserting female, Native American viewpoint. In 2018, she completed a residency with the International Sculpture Center.

Selected exhibitions
2019                           HCA graduate fellows exhibition | Headlands Center For The Arts | Sausalito, CA (upcoming May 2019)

Divinely Diné | Adobe Books Backroom Gallery | San Francisco, CA  (upcoming April 2019)

That's What She Said | Edwin Zoller Gallery, Penn State University | University Park, PA

Postcolonial Revenge | Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts | San Francisco, CA

Through Her Eye | Mana Contemporary Chicago | Chicago, IL

2018                           Open Book Show v | Root Division | San Francisco, CA

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou | Axis Gallery | Sacramento, CA

New Lands: a popup exhibition |  1599 Project Space | San Francisco, CA (curated by: jen tough gallery)

The Hand that guides | Folsom St | San Francisco, CA

Bay Area MFA | The Mills Building | San Francisco, CA

Grid | "domain" | Stanford University | Stanford, CA

urban x indigenous iv: unite the tribes | Somarts Cultural Center | San Francisco, CA

Where Here | MFA Thesis Exhibition | Stanford Art Gallery | Stanford, CA

Badlands | O'donnohue Family Stanford Educational Farm | Stanford, CA

2017                           The Annual Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition | Somarts Cultural Center | San Francisco, CA

Hi-5: the Annual First Year MFA Exhibition | Coulter Art Gallery | Stanford, CA

2015                           We Step into the light ii, group show | Physical Sciences, Ithaca, NY

2014                           Neon- oral- abimes, thesis ii b.f.a. final exhibition | Olive Tjaden gallery, Ithaca, NY

Untitled, select thesis ii b.f.a. student exhibition | Olive Tjaden gallery, Ithaca, NY

We step into the light, group show | Mann Library, Physical Sciences building, Ithaca, NY

2013                           Dos and Donuts, thesis i BFA final exhibition | Experimental Gallery, Ithaca, NY

Wasted Hours, Sculptural Artistic Practice Exhibition | Downtown Commons, Ithaca, NY

Rome study abroad student exhibition | Olive Tjaden gallery, Ithaca, NY

inspire, imagine, indulge, Cornell in Rome final exhibition | Palazzo Lazzaroni, Rome, Italy

Cornell in Rome exhibition | circolo degli artisti, Rome, Italy

Identity & the global lens, upper-level photography | Olive Tjaden gallery, Ithaca, NY

2012                           The creation of the Navajo bun | computing and communications center, Ithaca, NY

NYC program art show | Olive Tjaden gallery, Ithaca NY

First Fridays art walk | free spirit yoga, bixby knolls, Long Beach, CA

Bean prize exhibition | Experimental Gallery, Ithaca, NY

Awards

 * Walking Shield’s American Indian Access Scholarship


 * The Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal of Art


 * Edith Stone and Walter King Memorial Prize
 * The San Francisco Foundation’s Murphy Cadogan Scholarship
 * 2018 International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award